Twenty seven strange and unsettling stories which take us from Budapest to the Grand Canyon by way of passionate affairs in Central European apartments, and a faded Hungarian film star trying to save children from being shot. Csilla Toldy fled from the Communist regime in Hungary in 1981 and now lives in Ireland where she is known as a poet and film maker. - "After reading this collection, nothing sits in quite the same place as before." (David Park, author of 'Traveling in a Strange Land'.)